Environmental Public Health

The Division of Environmental Public Health is the focal point of the Palm Beach County Health Department’s effort to protect you and your family from the harmful effects of toxic chemicals, wastes, disease vectors, safety hazards, natural disasters, and contaminated air, food, and water.

Whether it is the air you breathe, the water you drink, the food you eat, the home you live in, or the school or daycare your child attends - at the Division of Environmental Public Health, we touch your life every day!

View or download our Fee Schedule for Environmental Public Health Services.

Helpful Links

Pay your fees and print your permit online

Check the status of an inspection for our programs

Report a food or waterborne illness

Report an unsafe or unsanitary condition in a restaurant, caterer or mobile food unit

Environmental Health Forms

Code of Ordinances of Palm Beach

Drinking Water

• Drinking Water Forms & Reporting Formats | Florida Department of Environmental Protection

• Application for Public Drinking Water Facility Construction Permit - dep-62-555.900_1.pdf

• Application for Notification for Use of General Permit for Constructions of an Extension to a Public Drinking Water Distribution System - dep-62-555.900-7-alt.pdf

• Application for transfer of PWS Construction Permit - dep-62-555.900_8.pdf

• Application for Certification Construction completion and request for a letter of Clearance to Place a Public Drinking Water Facility into service - dep-62-555.900_9.pdf

• Application for Permit to Construct an Onsite Water Distribution System Regulated Under Palm Beach County Environmental Control Rule II - pbchd-ecrII-12-2-a.pdf

• Application for Certification of Construction Completion and Request for a Letter of Clearance to Place an Onsite Water Distribution System into Service for Systems - pbchd-ecrII-12-3-a.pdf

Wastewater Systems

• Domestic Wastewater Forms | Florida Department of Environmental Protection

• Application for Notification/Application for Constructing a Domestic Wastewater Collection/Transmission system - 62-604.300(3)(a)

• Notification of Completion of Construction for a Domestic Wastewater Collection/Transmission System - 62-604.300(3)(b)

• Application for Supplement to Construction Application (For Sewers discharging through 3 or more Utilities) - pbchd-62-604-supplement.pdf

• Force Main/Lift Station Check List - pbchd-lift-station-checklist.pdf

• Water Distribution Check List - pbchd-water-distrubution-checklist.pdf

• Sewage Collection Check List - pbchd-sewage-collection-checklist.pdf

Water Permitting Release Requirements

• Permitting Release Requirements - pbchd-permitting-release-requirements.pdf

• Permitting Release Guidelines - pbchd-permitting-release-guidelines.pdf

Septic Tanks and Private Drinking Water Wells

• Septic Tank Forms can be found on the Florida Health Onsite Sewage Programs Forms and Publications site.
  
  
• Well Construction Permit Information
  
  
• Well Construction Permit Application

• Application For Permit To Generate Hazardous Waste - pbchd-hwpermit.pdf

• Permit Forms can be found on the Florida Health Biomedical Waste Program site.

• DEP Waste Management Rules and Forms

Public Swimming Pools

• Pool Resurfacing Notification Form

• Public Swimming Pool Forms can be found on the Florida Health Swimming Pools site.